nellie

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nellie (plural nellies)

  1. (Ireland) Clipping of high nellie. (a roadster bicycle)
    • 2009 March 20, “Sally Doran's Nellie Bike” (track 12), in The Mobile Phone[1], performed by Richie Kavanagh:
      CHORUS:Be the holy man above tonight did ye ever see the likes. Sally Doran sitting there upon her great big nellie bike. It was at twelve o'clock at night, I got an awful fright. But it was only Sally Doran on her great big nellie bike.